At 10:21 AM 6/23/1998 -0700, Andreas Ramos so eloquently stated:
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>From: Kathy E. Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Andreas Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: Web Consultants List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 12:48 AM
>Subject: Re: WC:>: Portals all starting to look and function alike
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>>Well, folks -- newspapers look "alike" too -- even when they are in
>>other languages than English.
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>Well... German papers don't have a comics page. In fact, no European paper
>does. Nor do they have separate sports section. The New York Times has a
>rather stuffy, old-fashioned look to it, compared to most modern city
>papers.
>
>Anyway, newspapers have been around for 400 years or so.
And my motto "Never trust a newspaper that doesn't have funnies."
I always say that to the telephone solicitors for the NY
Times, and one lady answered very nicely "Have you read their editorial page?"
>
>It is a bit funny to watch the industry go charging off in the trend of the
>moment, with the trade magazine pundits announcing that "This is the Big
>One, folks!" each time and naive, outsider corps plunking down hundreds of
>millions of dollars to buy in (just as Disney did), partly out of greed and
>partly out of sheer fear that they'll be left out.
>
>All media have to find their best form of expression. In the beginning, new
>media always try to repeat the current successful models. Photography spent
>nearly the first 100 years trying to prove that it could replicate nature as
>well as an oil painting. Radio spent its early career trying to replicate
>the music hall, with radio shows, etc. TV tried to prove that it was radio
>(music shows, etc.) So the web first tried to be a mall, then a TV channel
>(push technology), and now a mail order catalog (web commerce). Eventually
>it'll find its natural form. But we won't take fourty years to do that.
There was an excellent supplement to Adweek, Brand Week and Media
Week last year that told the history of media - radio, TV, Cable
and now the Net and how they parallel each other. What made TV a
hit was when they got their first major advertiser.
Unfortunately the supplement wasn't online.
George
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